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The Agricultural Use of Native Plants on Problem Soils

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Soil Mineral Stresses

Part of the book series: Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics ((GENETICS,volume 21))

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The origin and evolution of our present crop plants has been the cause for much speculation and conjecture. Our crops are largely not the result of any clear plan of action: there probably were many false starts, failures, and dead ends during the domestication of those plants (Heiser 1981). Some of the questions related to crop domestication, such as “where” and “when”, are more easily answered, however, than others, such as “how” and “why” (Farrington and Urry 1985). Determining where and when crops were domesticated is accomplished by analysis and interpretation of physical evidence. Explaining how and why they were domesticated requires knowledge of motives and other intangible aspects of the people involved in the process of domestication. Thus, even though we may not agree on exactly how domestication occurred, there is general agreement that the process took place independently in several widely separated areas during the past 10000 years or so (Streuver 1971; Harlan 1975; Farrington and Urry 1985).

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O’Leary, J.W. (1994). The Agricultural Use of Native Plants on Problem Soils. In: Yeo, A.R., Flowers, T.J. (eds) Soil Mineral Stresses. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84289-4_6

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